One must ask about the delight of opium from one who smokes it.
I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on the page, which have their own heavenly brightness, to be sure, there shines an even brighter, an enormous, dazzling -why- that blots out everything...
There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forge...
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.
Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.
With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world. One day at a time we can change everything.
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.
If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in Go...
Sam: This is your one opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before and that no one will copy throughout human existence. And if nothing else, you will be remembered as the one guy who ever did this. This one thing.
One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politi...
Let's Shout It Out and Speak As One. Mind Rock On, The Gemini One.
No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.
Remember me for these days, not the old ones.
If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.
The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.
But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
the one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything.
